
Open Social and CMNTY are both Dutch, both say they build community, and both are right - one hands you a network you own, the other turns a crowd's opinions into research data. Here is why the same word points at two very different businesses.

Maze, Typeform, Voxco, Refiner, Usersnap, Simplesat and SurveySparrow each own a slice of the feedback market. Zoho Survey is betting that the slice matters less than the suite it plugs into.

Long before Discourse threads and Patreon tiers, a Dutch company was turning online communities into listening posts for brands. CMNTY has spent nearly two decades using customer conversations as research nobody else could run.

Launched in Warsaw in 2006, SurveyLab has spent nearly two decades building a customizable survey platform that now serves more than 85,000 users - while flashier rivals like Dovetail, Pendo and QuestionPro chase the spotlight.
Survox, LimeSurvey, Typeform and PostHog trace a 50-year shift in how the world asks questions - from punch cards and phone banks to forms that feel like chat and surveys that pop up mid-click.